re: Alice in Borderland S2 - drops Thursday

Just finished S2. Loved it.

Earlier this thread someone mentioned the face cards being so chatty and dropping bits of knowledge being kinda strange. Thought it would have been neat if the face cards were actually the doctors and/or nurses trying to save the patients lives in the streets or in the hospital. Could have explained why some were so helpful in borderlands. And even though in real life they would have all been trying to help the patients survive & live, they ultimately would have been the last people the patients had contact with even if they died irl. So that could be an explanation as to why, in borderlands, the face cards would be friendly (for the most part) but still be viewed as the the cause of so much death in the players/patients injured minds.

The idea is rough around the edges and wouldn’t explain why the face cards died after each game, but I could iron out some details if I gave it more time

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I don’t think the face cards had any clue as to what actually happened are is happening to anyone.

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I agree with that. There is no evidence of the face cards being in the real world or even aware of it. My post was just a hypothetical “if” the face cards were also actual people IRL, who would they be?

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How many nurse’s get off on torturing patients and killing them? They very well could be the medical staff, but not all medical staff are altruistic.

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I wouldn't even go the torturing patients route. You could, obviously, depending on how dark you want to go in a series thats already pretty damn dark. I was thinking their brain is trying to comprehend whats going on as they die and it falsely projects the blame of them dying on the doctors/medical staff; hence, creating the doctors to be the face cards and in control of life or death. Basically go the Jacobs Ladder route with it where reality & death bed delusions are blurred.

This is all jibberish and doesnt matter anyways. Just stupid shite I was thinking about after the series when I was thinking about possible ways to tie the face cards into the real world.

I mean she lost her leg basically in her first game. Knowing what we know about time in the real world vs borderland, she was not in borderland very long at all in regards to the real world, when it happens.

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I think you’re confusing Usagi with the high school chick

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They're both hot, so understandable

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I think you’re confusing Usagi with the high school chick.

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Yep, I was.

Just received volume one of the manga because I am very curious to see how it was written. Anyone read one of these things? You have to read it backwards. It’s a PITA

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My whole answer is spoilers

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I just finished this tonight, and here's my addition:

(theory)
The borderland experience of all of those that feel connected in it together was some kind of shared DMT experience caused by their near/actual deaths.



I liked this better than Season 1, maybe because I don't remember that much lol. But the intensity of the games they went deeper on here was great. I think I liked the prison game the best, but the number game was awesome also.

I HATED episode 7...until I realized like everyone else that it didn't really happen.

I also didn't really understand the King of Spades. It was like everyone played by the rules except he just walked around blasting people?

It's pretty crazy if you think linearly about Arisu's trip:
--gets cast into borderland and immediately has to play games
--friends die, almost as a sacrifice for him
--makes it to the final game
--believes he is a mental patient that watched his friends killed by a car
--"wakes up" only to be at the bar with his friends (wait, did this happen, are they alive?)
--actually wakes up in hospital
--notices people from his trip are really in the real worls


Now, that IS some psychedelic shite.

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Since it was established in episode 1 that the King of Spades had the whole city as his game map, everyone is fair game the entire time as they would be in a video game.

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This. With the only exception being if you’re in another game, which is what drove them to the shipyard game in the first place.

I still don’t know about the shared disaster experience theory though. It doesn’t explain that room of supposed controllers/game masters getting killed at the end of S1. How did they all end up in purgatory running a game instead of playing in it? And did they all just die in the real world at the exact same time as they presumably did in the game?